Irving Hexham

Encountering World Religions

A Christian Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Today Christians in the West live in a missionary situation, where neighbors and coworkers are increasingly Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, and more. Encountering World Religions enables Christians to better understand the beliefs and practices of their neighbors and to interact with them in ways that are both faithful and gracious.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zondervan Academic
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780310588603
• ISBN-10: 031058860X
• Artikelnr.: 53066227

Autorenporträt

Irving Hexham is professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary and adjunct professor of World Christianity at Liverpool Hope University. He has published twenty-seven academic books, including The Concise Dictionary of Religion, Understanding Cults and New Religions, and Religion and Economic Thought, plus eighty major academic articles and chapters in books, numerous popular articles, and book reviews. Recently he completed a report for the United Nations' refugee agency on religious conflict in Africa and another for the Canadian Government's Department of Canadian Heritage on Religious Publications in Canada. He is listed in Who's Who in Canada and various scholarly directories. In 2008, he was honored at the historic Humboldt University in Berlin with a Festschrift, Border Crossings: Explorations of an Interdisciplinary Historian (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag).